Daytona's Filling Up With Bikers!
Cold Wx's Drivin' Them South: Downtown is Packed!
As we write this blog, Main Street in Daytona is filling up with bikers. Just before Main, the Beach Street area is experiencing a resurgence, and crowds not seen in the last seven years. The "new" Beach Street, home to the original Daytona Harley store for years, is also anchoring the HD display/free demo ride area, and a live entertainment sound stage. For the first time in years, vendors seeking Beach Street space have swarmed city hall for permits to sell stuff in this area. The rigs, vendors, the crowds, even the ultra high-end choppers of years gone by...they're all here. It's a seven year flashback of immense proportions, and we like it, never having been big fans of the "move" to US-1 north. Daytona Bike Week belongs in Daytona. We're getting back to normal, thanks to a housing recession so severe, the condo project slated for this area has been put out to pasture.
Buyers smokum peace pipe?
The new Indian Motorcycle Company has a new joint on Beach Street. Word is, they're moving 'em out, at nearly $36k each, and people are putting up cash money.
The Crux of the situation:
It could be the north's massive amounts of snow, maybe pent up demand for forgone fun of the past few years, or maybe it's just the continuing mystique of bike week. For whatever the reason, at this point, we might be able to go out on a limb, and predict the 2010 DBW is gonna be a biggie. How would we know for sure? The vendors are happy as the bikers who ditched a death grip on their snow shovels, in trade for two levers and a handlebar!
Bottom Line:
Yeah, it ain't seventy degrees, (yet), but sixties and sunny trumps almost any other section of the country. Tuesday looks to be the only soaker of the entire week. Even South Carolina could get a dusting of snow that day, but not Florida, where it'll be all rain, one day only.
Correction: We may have inadvertently not mentioned that this year's Rats Hole show is at Destination Daytona.
As we write this blog, Main Street in Daytona is filling up with bikers. Just before Main, the Beach Street area is experiencing a resurgence, and crowds not seen in the last seven years. The "new" Beach Street, home to the original Daytona Harley store for years, is also anchoring the HD display/free demo ride area, and a live entertainment sound stage. For the first time in years, vendors seeking Beach Street space have swarmed city hall for permits to sell stuff in this area. The rigs, vendors, the crowds, even the ultra high-end choppers of years gone by...they're all here. It's a seven year flashback of immense proportions, and we like it, never having been big fans of the "move" to US-1 north. Daytona Bike Week belongs in Daytona. We're getting back to normal, thanks to a housing recession so severe, the condo project slated for this area has been put out to pasture.
Buyers smokum peace pipe?
The new Indian Motorcycle Company has a new joint on Beach Street. Word is, they're moving 'em out, at nearly $36k each, and people are putting up cash money.
The Crux of the situation:
It could be the north's massive amounts of snow, maybe pent up demand for forgone fun of the past few years, or maybe it's just the continuing mystique of bike week. For whatever the reason, at this point, we might be able to go out on a limb, and predict the 2010 DBW is gonna be a biggie. How would we know for sure? The vendors are happy as the bikers who ditched a death grip on their snow shovels, in trade for two levers and a handlebar!
Bottom Line:
Yeah, it ain't seventy degrees, (yet), but sixties and sunny trumps almost any other section of the country. Tuesday looks to be the only soaker of the entire week. Even South Carolina could get a dusting of snow that day, but not Florida, where it'll be all rain, one day only.
Correction: We may have inadvertently not mentioned that this year's Rats Hole show is at Destination Daytona.
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